> generate regexes in seconds that take seasoned developers hours

Who on earth is spending hours writing a single regex?

Only because we ascribe them shiny new novelty value. The limitations and flaws are still being overlooked in the honeymoon period of its existence.

It's a useful tool for boilerplate text auto-population. In the same way as that image AI revolution has currently been harnessed to produce... content aware fill in Photoshop. It's absolutely not an epoch shift in the balance of man vs machine dominance.

People are getting very caught up in the hype.

>> “… similar to a Magic Eight Ball toy in function and impressiveness …”

> This just isn't true. The images and text generated by these AI are so much more than some dollar store gimmick.

Asking ChatGPT and Magic 8 Ball a string of questions are both essentially "just" returning probabilistic walks through canned latent space.